Meaning not yet researched.
Keilani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 383 in 2025. Its best rank was #632 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #632 in 2022; #727 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Keilani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#727 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #632.
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Keilani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 383 girls in 2025. Peak: #632 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 466 (2022).
In 2025, 383 US girls were named Keilani, making it the 727th most common girls’ name of the year, up 24 places from #751 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 376 girls named Keilani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #632, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 466. For comparison, it was #1,548 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Keilani in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 22 babies. In all, 5,309 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,456 babies named Keilani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,389 US girls were named Keilani; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 466. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,197 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Keilani ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #192 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kehlani (14,532 babies since 1880), Kelani (1,774 babies since 1880), Keilany (1,147 babies since 1880) and Keylani (814 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Keilanny, Keiliany and Kiloni are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Keilanny (74), Keiliany (22), Kiloni (10), Qilani (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Keilani in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 5 | #192 | #270 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #283 | — |
| Texas | 72 | #464 | #2,303 |
| Maryland | 9 | #576 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #581 | — |
| California | 54 | #598 | #913 |
| Iowa | 5 | #627 | — |
| Virginia | 12 | #631 | — |
| Washington | 10 | #651 | — |
| Colorado | 8 | #671 | — |
| Tennessee | 11 | #679 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #717 | #744 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #734 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #771 | — |
| Florida | 21 | #782 | #1,313 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #785 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #800 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #823 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #824 | — |
| Georgia | 12 | #827 | #1,422 |
| Illinois | 11 | #832 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #841 | — |
| New York | 18 | #884 | #1,551 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #891 | #1,272 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #894 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,120 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,210 | #1,496 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,360 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 383 | #727 | — | — |
| 2024 | 376 | #751 | — | — |
| 2023 | 457 | #642 | — | — |
| 2022 | 466 | #632 | — | — |
| 2021 | 414 | #698 | — | — |
| 2020 | 360 | #758 | — | — |
| 2019 | 313 | #855 | — | — |
| 2018 | 263 | #997 | — | — |
| 2017 | 189 | #1,253 | — | — |
| 2016 | 168 | #1,391 | — | — |
| 2015 | 143 | #1,548 | 5 | #13,092 |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 2012 | 148 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 2011 | 102 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 2010 | 94 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 2009 | 109 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 2008 | 98 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 2007 | 120 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 2006 | 99 | #2,008 | — | — |
| 2005 | 89 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,145 | — | — |
| 2003 | 77 | #2,237 | — | — |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,899 | — | — |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,801 | — | — |
| 1999 | 53 | #2,657 | — | — |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,551 | — | — |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,443 | — | — |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,669 | — | — |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,455 | — | — |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,923 | — | — |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,909 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,267 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,174 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,766 | — | — |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,745 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,748 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,187 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,052 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,349 | — | — |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,224 | — | — |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,207 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).